NBC Uses Cabdriver Jumping on Moving Car to Go After Uber

Kyle Drennen | December 10, 2015
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On Thursday, NBC’s Today seized on a cabdriver in Toronto attacking the car of an Uber driver as a chance to attack the entrepreneurial car service, with co-host Savannah Guthrie proclaiming: “A cabbie confronts an Uber driver and gets dragged 60 feet down the street, as the battle between the car service app and traditional taxis gets ugly.”

In the report that followed, correspondent Willie Geist oddly described the “wild scene” by touting the cabdriver’s claim that “he started banging on the car because he was hoping to make a point that Uber drivers are unsafe and uninsured.” In contrast to that assertion, the video showed that the only person being “unsafe” was the cabbie, who hit the car several times before jumping on the moving vehicle.

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